Get Back | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: A7 :|| x3
| A7 A6 G/B D/A |
Verse 1
||: A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 (A6) :||
Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner, but he knew it couldn’t last.
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona, for some California grass.
Chorus 1
| A7 A6 A7#9 | A7 A6 A7#9 | D7 (D6) | A7 A6 G/B D/A |
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged.
| A7 A6 A7#9 | A7 A6 A7#9 | D7 (D6) | A7 (A6) |
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged. Get back Jojo.
Solo
||: A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 A6 G/B D/A :||
Go home.
Chorus 2
| A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 A6 G/B D/A |
Get back, get back, back to where you once belonged.
| A7 A6 A7 | A7 A6 A7 | D7 (D6) | D C/D | G/D C6/D |
Get back, get back, back to where you once belonged, yeah. Oh, get back, Jo.
Solo 2
||: A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 A6 G/B D/A :||
Verse 2
| A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 (A6) |
Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman, but she was another man.
| A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 A6 G/B |
All the girls around her say she’s got it coming, but she gets it while she can.
Chorus 3
| A7 A6 A7#9 | A7 A6 A7#9 | D7 (D6) | A7 A6 G/B D/A |
Oh, get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged.
| A7 A6 A7#9 | A7 A6 A7#9 | D7 (D6) | A7 A6 A7#9 |
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged. Get back Loretta, woo, woo.
Solo 3
||: A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 A6 G/B D/A :||
Go home.
Chorus 4
| A7 A6 A7#9 | A7 A6 A7#9 | D7 (D6) | A7 A6 G/B D/A |
Oh, get back, yeah, get back, get back to where you once belonged.
| A7 A6 A7#9 | A7 A6 A7#9 | D7 (D6) | D C/D D | D |
Yeah, get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged. Ooh…
Get Back Chords: Playing Lennon and Harrison’s Parts on One Guitar
Moving mainly between chords I – IV (#1 on the chord progression list), (almost) only a G is added to the mix. Since Get Back is clearly in the key of A, the G chord is a bVIIx.
When it comes to the chord extensions, it’s difficult to pin them down as both Lennon and Harrison play chord licks using various extensions, you have to invent a new guitar part if it’s just to be played on one guitar.
My conclusion is to think of the honky-tonk (Johnny B. Goode and many more) but instead of A5 – A6 on repeat, we go from A7 – A6.
It’s Lennon who plays most of the little licks, panned to the left, it does sound suspiciously close to how Eric Clapton plays, it must have rubbed off on Lennon having spent so much time together over the years leading up to Get Back!
Harrison is playing more rhythm, panned to the right.
If you are the only guitar player in your band, you need to somehow combine these two parts, an amazing challenge I’m still working on—TAB will be available soon.
Should you want to try to find a part by playing along with the original recording, you’ll do best if you tune up to 444Hz as the recording is a bit sharp.
Above with chords and lyrics, you can see all the little variations in extensions, below is a (slightly) simplified chord chart.
Get Back Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro
You can download my chord chart as a PDF, or in the iReal Pro format where you can modify it to your heart’s content.
Here are a few details that didn’t make it into the chord chart:
- Chorus 1 doesn’t go to G/B – D/A in the last bar.
- Verse 2 includes a G/B at the end, which to me sounds like a mistake on the recording.
- Chorus 3 ends with an A7#9 instead of G/B – D/A.
With chords and lyrics, it’s easy to include all these nuances, but in a chord chart, it can make things more confusing—especially if you account for the mistakes!
Get Back – Another #1 from The Beatles!
Get Back is yet another tune from The Beatles‘ gigantic hit parade.
Released both as a single and on the group’s final album, Let It Be, it reached #1 in 13 countries, selling 4.5 million copies worldwide.
Other notable songs from this album would be The Long And Winding Road, Across The Universe, and of course, Let It Be.
Produced by Phil Spector and released in 1970, this was the last studio album The Beatles made. Study the chords and lyrics above to see how they crafted one of their 20 chart-topping hits.
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